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"Smart Board" To Replace White Boards?
ZiZ writes "The BBC has released a story reporting a growing level of interest in Smart Board technology - particularly due to the efforts of Virtual-Ink's Mimio and variants thereof. Mimio gathers the information written on a whiteboard by virtue of "infared and ultrasonic receivers", stores it in a mobile base station, and allows for later downloading to a computer; it also has the ability to interface with a presentation, browser, or whatnot, in a mode they call mimioMouse, to allow cheap, interactive, real-time smartboards.This looks like it could be the high-tech breakthrough schools everywhere, not just in the UK, have been waiting for - or at least the beginning...and at a mere $400 or so, it's almost affordable enough to justify one in the home, too!"
It happens whenever I swim in cold water, baby. It happens.
is when they put the ice in the urinals in the men's room.
Showing a color that is supposedly so close to white that you can barely distiguish it on the web is quite daring. Monitor calibration is not widely used and even on well adjusted monitors, that is certainly not white, not even on black background, as they claim. Of course, without any reference, the human eye will adjust to call mostly anything white after some time. My vote is for "beige", ignoring that that is exactly the single name they don't want to give to the universal color.
Doh, nevermind... ;)